Ruling on Prison Food

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NATIONAL BRIEFING | ROCKIES
Colorado: Ruling on Prison Food
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 24, 2009

The Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry L. Nichols has lost a round in his lawsuit seeking more whole grains and fresh food in his diet at the federal prison in Florence. A federal judge in Denver denied Mr. Nichols’s request for a preliminary injunction. The judge said Mr. Nichols did not show that he faced immediate and irreparable injury. The court has not ruled on the suit itself. Mr. Nichols contends his diet consisted of “unhealthy dead and refined foods” and is causing him physical problems. He also said the food violated his religious beliefs. Mr. Nichols is serving a life sentence for conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the 1995 courthouse bombing.

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this reminds me of the scene in Shawshank Redemption where Tim Robbins finds a bug in his breakfast food and one of the other prisoners asks him if he can have it for the pet baby crow tucked away in his sweater.